The Externalization of the Hierarchy - Section II - The General World
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The Problem of Government

Coming now to the
realm of government, under the new world order, one is faced with a very complex
situation. [199] Certain great ideological regimes have divided the world into opposing
groups. There are the great democracies, under which certain of the few remaining
monarchies find a place; there are the totalitarian powers in which the ancient
dictatorships and autocracies of the past are summed up. There is nothing new in the Axis
policies. They are essentially reactionary groups, for tyrants, cruelty and the
exploitation of the weak are part of ancient history. The democracies, with all their
present ineffectiveness, have in them the germ of that which is truly new, for they are
the expression of an upward surging towards self-rule and self-mastery by humanity as a
whole. There is also the communistic ideal which is a curious blend of individualism,
dictatorship, the ancient conflict between labor and capital, the Sermon on the Mount, and
the worst aspects of revolution and exploitation. The lines which it will follow, even in
the immediate future, are unpredictable. There are other countries and peoples whose
governments are conditioned by their environment and who at present play no real
determining part in world events, except in so far as a greater power uses them. Again,
there are peoples and tribes who still pursue their little lives, unaffected by the
turmoil to be found in the more highly civilized parts of the world.

Behind all
this diversity of governmental methods certain clear outlines are emerging which indicate
wider fusions and a tendency to bring about certain syntheses. Various basic trends of
thought are appearing which, in the new world order, will unfold into that major synthesis
so much desired by the spiritual Hierarchy of the planet, and which, whilst preserving the
large national and racial outlines, will produce an underlying and subjective state of
mind which will end the age of separateness. Desire is today being evoked for the
Federated States of Europe, modeled on the lines of the British Commonwealth of Nations or
the United States of America; there is talk of a new order in Asia, of the Good Neighbor
policy in America, of a Federal Union of the democratic nations; there is also the steady
spread of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Certain major groupings [200] would seem
possible and probably advisable. They might be divided as follows:

A Federal
Union of the great democracies after the war. This might include the British Empire as a
whole, the United States, the Scandinavian countries and certain northern European
nations, including Germany.

A Union of
the Latin countries, including France, Spain, all the Mediterranean countries, the Balkan
countries (except one or two which might be absorbed into the U.S.S.R.), and South
America.

The United
Soviet Socialist Republics and certain Asiatic nations working in collaboration with them,
such as China, and later Japan.

These three
great blocs would not be antagonistic blocs but simply geographical spheres of influence.
They would all three work in the closest unity and economic relation. Each nation within
the three blocs would preserve its sovereign independence, but between these independent
nations and between these blocs there would be identity of purpose, unity of effort and
the recognition of the economic control of a league of nations. This league, being formed
of the representatives of all the nations and its inner governing body being chosen by the
three blocs, would control all sources of supply, distribute all such supplies and
determine all economic policies.

With the details of these future adjustments I shall not deal. They must be wrought out
by the men and women of goodwill in the crucible of experiment and experience. Only
universal disaster could have brought men to a state of mind wherein such propositions and
solutions could be presented. The general recognition that the old order has lamentably
failed is most valuable.